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A Chinese woman has been detained at the commodity hub of Yiwu for kidnapping an Indian trader last week over a debt dispute, after the latter was rescued and sent back home.

A former hedge-fund trader told jurors at the insider-trading trial of ex-Procter & Gamble director Rajat Gupta that he bet the company's stock would fall based on inside information purportedly from a P&G board member.

Royal Bank of Scotland is facing a $100m (£64m) court battle in America over allegations it lied to clients and committed fraud.

Im internationalen Maßstab sind Chinas Wertpapierhändler Zwerge. Das soll sich ändern: Die chinesischen Trader sollen zu Rivalen der Wall Street werden.

SUNGAI BULOH, Malaysia (AP) -- A Malaysian wildlife trader held captive by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants for a year in the southern Philippines says he saw group members as young as 15 skilled in using M16 rifles that were prevalent in the impoverished region....

An Indian trader went missing in eastern China’s Yiwu city raising fears that he could have been abducted by local businessmen over a dispute.

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Police on Tuesday recovered famous businessman of the city abducted by unknown persons and arrested four kidnappers, Inspector General of Police Islamabad Bani Amin Khan said here on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference here at Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the IGP said that unknown persons abducted Muhammad Yousuf, the owner of Mr. Books, from Super Market...

Trader Sam's, the (fab) Trader Vic's knockoff tiki bar at the Disneyland Hotel, has rolled out its own line of souvenir tiki mugs, which are reminiscent of the old Trader Vic's mugs, but with rather good designs that are all their own. New Tiki mugs are Trader Sam’s Barrel Mug, with Shipwreck on the Rocks [...]

LONDON (Reuters) - Commodities trader Glencore has taken majority control of its fast-growing Mutanda copper operation in Congo with deals worth $480 million, marking the first step in a planned merger of the mine with its nearby Kansuki concession.

Traders weren't expecting Facebook to make its big stock market debut at the sound of the opening bell last Friday, but they weren't anticipating a two-hour delay either.

According to the Wall Street Journal ("Inside JP Morgan's Blunder" 05.18.12) JP Morgan's losses on what has been reported as big directional bets on credit...

Bruno Iksil, the trader at the center of the bank’s $2 billion debacle, is expected to depart, colleagues said.

One of JPMorgan Chase's highest-ranking women, Ina Drew (pictured), has resigned from her post after the bank lost $2billion in a trading blunder attributed to an employee who was under her supervision.

Chief investment officer to be replaced by Matt Zames as banking giant fights to contain massive losses at London officesIna Drew, a thirty-year veteran of JP Morgan Chase and one of Wall Street's most senior women bankers, has quit, as the bank fights to contain massive losses at its London operation.Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan's chief executive, said Sunday there was "no excuse" for the disastorou...

Maggie noted last night that the furor over JP Morgan's multibillion-dollar trading loss has direct political implications, and now word comes from the Wall Street Journal that several executives will exit the firm due to their involvement in the blunder: Three high-ranking officers at the center of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s giant trading blunder are expected to leave the firm this week, ...

The bank will accept the resignation of Ina Drew, its chief investment officer, with at least two other executives held accountable for the $2 billion blunder, a source speaking on condition of anonymity said.

Un trader français défraie encore la chronique : Bruno Iksil, surnommé à La City la « baleine de la Tamise ». Cet opérateur très actif sur le marché des CDS est au centre des interrogations sur la perte de la banque américaine.Articles en rapportLe dollar canadien, ou « loonie », tourne autour de la...- 10,89 % Eutelsat. Le titre de l'opérateur de satellites...Les conséquences de solvabilité II...

Commodities trader is to embark on a $7bn spending programme that will include a string of acquisitions as dealmaking sweeps the agribusiness industry

The US banking group said Thursday that it had lost the money on trades in complex credit derivatives, mostly carried out by London trader Bruno Iksil.

DUBBED 'Voldemort', Iksil has caused a huge loss in the past six weeks and bank says it could get even bigger

Le trader français, basé à Londres et soupçonné d'avoir contribué à faire...

Le groupe a été condamné ce vendredi pour «faute inexcusable». L'un de ses anciens salariés est décédé d'un cancer du poumon en 2009.Articles en rapportHP fait son retour en force dans le grand publicUn groupe allemand s'intéresse à Veolia TransdevUn trader français fait perdre des milliards de dollars à JP Morgan

JPMorgan said last night that it suffered a trading loss of at least $2 billion from a failed hedging strategy, a surprise disclosure that hit financial stocks and the reputation of the bank and its prominent chief executive Jamie Dimon.

C'est le trader français surnommé «la baleine de Londres» qui est à l'origine des pertes de 2 milliards de dollars cumulées en six semaines. Une somme qui pourrait encore grossir.

(Reuters) - A Florida man accused of operating a "free-riding" fraud, in which he bought and sold $64 million of stock with money he did not have, has pleaded guilty in New York to 10 criminal counts, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said on Tuesday.

Die Idee, mit dem täglichen Handel von Hebelprodukten reich zu werden, geht nicht auf. Wissenschaftliche Studien ergaben, dass nur wenige Trader eine Rendite von circa fünf Prozent verdienen.

TOKYO, May 8 (Reuters) - Japan's Marubeni Corp is in advanced talks to buy U.S. grain and energy trader Gavilon for about $5.2 billion including debt after beating out competition from rival domestic...

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Jonah Hill, fresh off an Oscar nomination for his performance in "Moneyball," will star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street." The film, still in pre-production, is based on Jordan Delfort's memoir about his meteoric rise and ignominious fall as a Wall Street trader. Delfort made millions, living of a life of the utmost extravagance ...

Commodities trader Glencore said Canada's competition agency isn't challenging its $6 billion deal for Canadian grain handler Viterra.

Industrials analyst Willemse moves to fund manager

SteelyKid: Daddy, would you like to go to visit Jake and the Never Land Pirates? Me:: In principle, sure. But it's a cartoon. We can't go there, it's not a real place. SteelyKid: Yes it is. Never Land is real, we can go there. Me: Well, look, if you find some pixies dust that we can use to make us fly, we can try to fly to N...

L'ancien trader Jérôme Kerviel, lourdement condamné en 2010 pour une perte record à la Société Générale, dépose une nouvelle plainte contre la banque, pour "faux et usage de faux", a annoncé ce vendredi son avocat devant la presse.Articles en rapportDisparition de la petite Maddie en 2007: la police britannique "croit" qu´elle peut être en vieDes milliers de Norvégiens entonnent une chanson con...

A TRADER allegedly caught selling weapons at a market in Sydney's west has been charged with fresh offences after police uncovered a massive cache of guns and knives.

Charles Shaw knew the moment he hit rock bottom. It wasn’t in the throes of the novelist’s crack cocaine addiction or even the time he spent in prison writing much of his book “Exile Nation.” It was right when he got out of the clink and got a job at Trader Joe’s stocking … you guessed it.  “It was the only job I could get, and stacking boxes of wine with my name on it every day literally pushe...

Astronaut, TV star and precocious stock trader Anton Kreil offers a glimpse into how the pros play the market and how retail players have been duped.

L’ancien trader Jérôme Kerviel, condamné en 2010 pour une perte record de la Société Générale de près de 5 milliards d’euros, a dépos...lire la suite

At a time when instability in the Middle East is contributing to rising global oil prices that impact consumers at the pump, it is critically important to give American families confidence that illegal manipulation, fraud and market rigging are not contributing to gas price increases. President Obama has already taken significant action to step up oversight of oil markets and close dangerou...

My ass thanks porn iguana Courtney Stodden for introducing me to the tomatopeen (ass + tomatopeen = salsa) she bought at the grocery store (probably at Trader Ho's). But how can she push vegetarianism on us when she's completely covered in burnt cow leather? HYPOCRITE! Or as my friend from high school with a speech impediment says: HIPPO CLIT! Courtney doesn't deserve that tomatopeen. <...

DELOITTE has been blasted by a US trader of distressed debt for  prolonging the plight of MF Global Australia's clients.

PAPERS RELATING to commodities trader Glencore’s $37 billion takeover of miner Xstrata will be sent to shareholders a month later than previously anticipated, the companies said yesterday.

Oil trader Trafigura has made its first move into refining in Asia, investing up to $130 million for a 24% stake in Nagarjuna Oil Corp Ltd's (NOCL) planned refinery in southern India and replacing BP as NOCL's crude supplier.

Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, jailed in New York, urges Moscow to sue the US and Thailand on his behalf.

A Filipino-Chinese trader was seized by a group of gunmen in the restive southern Philippines on Saturday night.

Can't get enough of Henry Cavill?? Us either! So ch-ch-check out this clip from Superman HIS OTHER hero movie, called The Cold Light of Day! The synopsis might seem boring, but honestly this movie looks INtense! Here's what it's about: 'After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader (Cavill) is confronted [...]

One of the world's biggest investment banks, JPMorgan Chase, does not have to pay a trader nearly $1 million despite making a decimal point blunder in a botched employment contract, a British judge ruled.

Commodities trader Glencore is buying Canadian grain handling firm Viterra for $6.2bn.

Commodity trader Glencore looks set to win the battle for Canadian grain trader as the world’s four dominant agricultural dealers look on

As a stock trader before the Army, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales committed fraud and was found liable for a $1.4 million award, records show.

THE soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians gave up his career as a stock trader after the 9/11 attacks and joined the army.

GLAMOUR girl wears barely-there bikini for beach walk with new city trader boyfriend

As St Patrick's Day is celebrated today, it seems the patron saint's motives for leaving Roman Britain may have been less selfless than previously thought.

For Goldman Sachs, the real damage of the last two days didn’t come from disgruntled trader Greg Smith’s resignation op-ed. It came from Goldman’s defenders. Many of the replies said, either explicitly or in effect, of course Goldman rips off its clients if doing so will help it make money. Only the naive would think otherwise. As an editorial in Bloomberg View put it , “It must have b...

ENACTED IN 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, the “Volcker Rule” bans commercial banks from speculating in hedge funds and the like. The purpose, according to its eponymous advocate, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, is to prevent banks from taking excessive risks with the funding advantage federal deposit insurance gives them. Such “proprietary trading,” Mr. Volck...

Represents Trader Corp.’s first marketing salvo since sale by Yellow Media

A 23-year-old financial high-flyer who spent £200,000 ($314,000) on a round of drinks has run into trouble with his unemployed mother

Zambia's environment watchdog has ordered Mopani copper Mine, a unit of commodity trader Glencore, to suspend part of its operations.

Folks, in the ongoing revamp of our Barron’s blogs, you may have noticed that if you click on an article from the Barron’s home page, you will now arrive at the specific article. This is a change from days of old, when clicking a link brought you to the “landing page,” the main blog page [...]

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) announced today Sumatra's first ever successful sentence of an illegal orangutan owner and trader in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

WARBURTON - Complete shutter-down strike against twenty-hour long power loadshedding was observed here in the city on Thursday. The citizens blocked Nankana and Ferozwattuan roads. They also took out a rally from Ghala Mandi to the Lesco office. The protesters, carrying banners and placards, shouted anti-government slogans. The leaders of various trader unions addressed the rally and demanded ....

A Dutch antique trader is selling his liquor collection, which includes the most expensive Cognac in the world.

News of a merger between mining firm Xstrata and commodities trader Glencore has been met with a mixed reception by investors.

Two top 10 shareholders in miner Xstrata said today they would vote against a takeover by commodities trader Glencore, threatening the industry's biggest deal to create a powerhouse spanning mining, agriculture and trading.

Commodities trader Glencore has reached agreement with Swiss mining group Xstrata on a merger that would create a global group worth $90-billion.

Wer hat die Milliarden verzockt? Im Prozess um den Handelsskandal bei der UBS plädiert der angeklagte Ex-Spekulant Kweku Adoboli auf "nicht schuldig". Die Anklage wirft ihm Betrug und Bilanzfälschung vor.

wiredmikey writes "The SEC has filed charges against a trader in Latvia for conducting a widespread online account intrusion scheme in which he manipulated the prices of more than 100 NYSE and Nasdaq securities by making unauthorized purchases or sales from hijacked brokerage accounts. The SEC also went after four online trading firms and eight executives who are said to have helped the hacker ...

Kweku Adoboli, former trader at UBS, denies four counts of fraud in case which cost Swiss bank $2.3bn.

Two unidentified men snatched a bag containing Rs 1.5 lakh from a trader in Dabwali on Saturday night.

Beijing calls Washington’s move ‘unreasonable’ and not in line with the spirit of Security Council resolutions regarding Iran’s nuclear programme

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The family of a British commodities trader who died while partying in Las Vegas will accept $350,000 to end a federal lawsuit stemming from the disappearance of the man's internal organs after an autopsy and before his body was returned to London, their lawyer said Wednesday....

NANKANA SAHIB - Renowned transporter and trader leader Malik Khalid Mahmood has announced to join PTI along with his hundreds of companions including Malik Tariq Mahmood, Malik Faisal Masood and others during a ceremony held here at Shah Bagh Colony on Monday. PTI District Coordinator Sh Naseer Ahmed, Tehsil Organiser Eng. Sh Shahid Mahmood were the chief guest. During his address to party work...

Back in August, social game developer Kixeye raised $18 million in series C financing, and added Zynga Andrew Trader to its Board of Directors. And today the self-proclaimed "largest maker of online strategy combat games" has announced the addition of another ex-Zynga exec into the fold. Brandon Barber will be joining Kixeye as the SVP of Marketing, where he will report directly to Co-founder...

Im "Trader Vic's" im Bayerischen Hof spielt der Zeitgeist keine Rolle - dort ist alles noch so wie bei der Eröffnung vor 40 Jahren. Die Gäste kommen vor allem wegen der polynesischen Küche und dem legendären Cocktail Mai Tai.

In 2007 it was trading for nearly 50 times earnings. Today it's 10. What happened?  Click to enlarge. Source: Asymco Perhaps the most succinct commentary on Leonid Kanopka's naive claim that Apple (AAPL) is a "bubble ready to burst" (see "A few fries short of a Happy Meal") was Nicu Mihalache's plaintive response: "Do you know what P/E is?" The price-to-earnings ratio, as every trader knows, is...

New York, November 28 (ots/PRNewswire) - Tradency BVI, der Entwickler fortschrittlicher Technologie für den Online-Devisenhandel (Forex Trading) hat bekannt gegeben, dass seine Mirror Trader-Plattform von dem Tokioter Unternehmen Invast Securities Co. Ltd., einem der grössten ...

PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE:This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Amnesty International. To mark this, Amnesty, in association withThe Irish Times, is profiling a prisoner each month . . .

An appeal has begun against a million-euro fine on multinational oil trader Trafigura for the illegal export of toxic waste. It was dumped in Ivory Coast after a stopover in the Netherlands.

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO), the country's largest oils and food trader, plans to aggressively expand its vineyard ownership overseas on the heels of two recent purchases, senior company officials said.